ICE Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies Performed at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia

Records and a report obtained by the Times detail allegations of widespread medical abuse and forced sterilization against women held at an immigration detention center in Georgia. The report was presented to Congress Thursday.

Mexico's Foreign Ministry said it has identified two Mexican migrant women who may have had surgery performed on them without their consent while detained at a U.S. immigration center in the state of Georgia.

Today, with the passage of H. Res. 1153, the House has sent a clear and unequivocal message: the infliction of unwanted, invasive and life-altering medical procedures on immigrant women is an appalling human rights abuse that demands immediate and full accountability.

HOUSTON (AP) — Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention center in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned her jail jumpsuit to show the scars on her abdomen. There...

A new lawsuit alleges the doctor performed unwanted hysterectomies on women being detained by ICE.

AP review finds no evidence of mass hysterectomies but files show growing allegations of operations women did not fully understand

New information emerges about the doctor accused of forcibly sterilizing detained women and the nurse who blew the whistle.

“I was brought up by the American dream that you treat people the way you want to be treated," said a nurse who filed a whistleblower complaint.

ATLANTA (AP) — Leading congressional Democrats reacted furiously Tuesday to lightly substantiated claims that immigrants held at a detention center in Georgia are undergoing questionable hysterectomies. In a complaint filed Monday, a nurse alleges that the Irwin County Detention Center performed questionable hysterectomies, refused to test detainees for COVID-19 and shredded medical records. A top medical official with U. S.

A whistleblower complaint from a detention center nurse suggests that non-English-speaking detainees couldn’t give informed consent.

Nurse Dawn Wooten says she was demoted and reprimanded when she spoke out about practices at Georgia detention center

Irwin Detention Center, run by LaSalle Corrections, has refused to test detainees and underreported Covid-19 cases, the nurse says.

Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting "jarring medical neglect" within the facility, including a refusal to test detainees for the novel coronavirus and an exorbitant rate of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women.

The allegations are part of a larger complaint alleging “jarring medical neglect” and lack of coronavirus safety precautions at a detention center in Georgia.